1543 in art

Events

Works

Paintings

• Hans Holbein the Younger – Portrait of John Chambers
• Lorenzo Lotto – Husband and Wife

Births

• Kanō Eitoku – Japanese painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting (d. 1590)
• Alessandro Fei – Italian painter who primarily worked in a Mannerist style (d. 1592)

Deaths

• Polidoro da Caravaggio – Italian early Renaissance painter (b. 1492/1495)
• Hans Holbein the Younger – German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style (d. 1497)
• Altobello Melone – Italian painter of the Renaissance (b. 1490/1491)
• Francesco Granacci – Italian painter of the Renaissance (b. 1469)